10-02-2023, 03:57 PM
(10-02-2023, 02:48 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: But if you call your station "GB News", you invite the regulator to consider that the public would expect that all of the station's output is news and falls under the appropriate regulations
There is no such thing as a UK "news channel" its a fictional construct - a twitter and media forums tooth fairy. In UK broadcasting regulations, Sky News is the same licence class as Babestation.
Ofcom have decided that you can mix content, so long as the 'News' reporting is separate and impartial (the Codes News part applies to these) Hence ITV regions can have sport, weather, pollen sponsors - if this holy grail of ' exclusivly news' existed that couldn't happen. The simple appearance of a caption magically separates the content in law even tho its all one show with same hosts and EPG entry.
On the other side of the coin, if you couldn't mix news topical news content into mainstream shows then GMB, This Morning, Loose Woomen, Jeremy Vine, all of LBC couldn't happen.
Everything GBN and Talk TV exists elsewhere in some form.
I wouldn't have called GB News that for many reasons, but Ofcom compliance isn't one of them. Names are not literal: Quest Red always appeared in full colour and Babe station features neither infants or trains